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Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a building or a group of buildings serving as a trading centre for a fur company in a certain region.

See: trading post(def. 1)

Quotations

1772

. . . in the afternoon passed by an old Trading house, belonging to the French pedlars before the conquest of Quebec. . . .

1818

The only habitation beyond it, is a trading house of the North-west Company, who drive a pretty gainful traffic with the Indians of the neighbourhood, taking their furs at a shillng each, and selling them those commodities custom has rendered necessaries, at their own price. . . .

1864

. . . the green in front of the Trading House was covered with the swarthy devils in all manner of paint and adornment--drums, pipes, hatchets and knives.

1949

In order to cultivate friendly relations with the Indians and guard against the attempts of the enemy to wean them away, it was decided to establish an Indian trading-house for them at a little cove above the Reversing Falls.